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Containerizing OpenStack Rally to create Benchmarking as a Service

What is Benchmarking? Benchmarking is the process of measuring performance of a software system. Benchmarking provides capacity analysis and helps determine the best tool for a specific use case. OpenStack clouds require benchmarking because of their multi-services architecture. Benchmarking OpenStack clouds can help in answering questions like how efficiently sets of servers perform. Need for

Webinar Preview: Using Containers in Hybrid Clouds with Kubernetes

Bich Le, our Co-founder and Chief Architect continued his series of webinars on containers and Kubernetes on June 14. This time, he talked about using these technologies across on-premises and public cloud environments in a true hybrid cloud fashion. Containers have taken a large amount of developer mindshare and for good reason: they allow devs

Container Namespaces – Deep Dive into Container Networking

Of late, there have been various Open source projects to manage networking for containers. Docker implemented “libnetwork“. I’ve written in the past about using Calico with Docker containers. Debugging and low level tweaks to performance isn’t easy without an in-depth understanding of how the network stack works for a container. This post tries to explain network

Kubernetes & Containers: A New Era for DevOps (Webinar)

We are on the cusp of a new era of application development software: instead of bolting on operations as an after-thought to the software development process, Kubernetes promises to bring development and operations together by design. This new open source container cluster manager provides platform automation for deployment, scaling and management of application containers and

Compare Kubernetes vs ECS (Amazon EC2 Container Service)

This post has been updated by Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS. — Developers looking to containerize their traditional virtualized applications into micro-services face a conundrum of choice today. The contenders are Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, Amazon ECS and few others. All touting same or similar benefits, all vying for the top spot of being the most powerful container orchestration

Demo of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with Jenkins

Recently, we announced the beta release of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, a SaaS-managed offering for Kubernetes. The “managed” experience means Platform9 handles all the nitty gritty details of Kubernetes deployment, configuration, ongoing monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrades. This lets software developers focus on using the Kubernetes APIs to build cloud-native applications, and DevOps teams can focus on realizing

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Docker Takes a Page from the Internet Explorer Playbook

In the late 90s, I had a short-sighted reaction to Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows OS. While the technology world grappled with the legalities, ethics and impact to competition, I was just happy to have a browser that was faster and easier to use. I’m writing this at DockerCon16, where yesterday’s keynote reminded me

Hello Austin! Platform9 at Tech Field Day 2016

It’s Tech Field Day 2016, where Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram and Chief Architect Bich Le presented on Wednesday February 3, 2016 from 9:30am-11:30am Central Time. Agenda includes deep dives into Platform9 Managed OpenStack, plus a peek into our labs to see what Bich and the team are cooking up. Watch the video recordings here

The Rise of Cloud-Managed Data Centers

My co-founder and CEO Sirish Raghuram recently posted Platform9’s 2015 Predictions on VMBlog. We think the topic is important enough that it deserves its own blog post. 2014 marked the year when Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) became a common term in the dictionary of enterprise IT. When first coined as a term by VMware and published during

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On Standardization of Containers

Last week was a big one for Docker and the container space. Docker made some exciting product announcements at DockerCon Europe. Simultaneously, CoreOS announced it’s effort to define an Open Container Format in the form of ‘App Containers’ and Rocket. The community responded with a strong reaction. Some raised questions about the benefit of alternate container engine

The Melting Pot In Virtualized Datacenters

The time when IT used one virtualization platform for server consolidation seems long past. Cost and performance tradeoffs have led to IT Administrators deploying multiple virtualization technologies, some for production and some for dev/test use. Rebel developers profess their love for a new found religion. Containers, they say, are the way forward. Some even swear to never boot

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